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Ministry of Defence
Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Young Officers Course-30 & Graduation Course-18
Pune, 29 June 2023
The Young Officers Course 30 and Graduation Course 18 reunited at the College of Military Engineering  Pune to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of the course which marks 60 years from the day of commission which was held on 29 Jun 1963 at the Faculty of Combat, CME.
On Thursday, 40 of them were back to their Alma mater, CME to relive the excellent memories and to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the course. The course has fought 1965 and 1971 War with Western adversary back to back and Maj Surinder Vatsa of the course was posthumously awarded with VrC , the third Highest Gallantry Award during 1971 War for his outstanding courage and unyielding fighting spirit. Many of the veterans were accompanied with their spouse and the presence of spirited "Veer Naris" graced the occasion.
The celebrations commenced with the Photograph of the reunion course at the historical Main Building of CME as a backdrop, followed by an address by the senior most officer of the course, Lt Gen NP Aul, AVSM  who welcomed and congratulated all for making this far. Officiating Commandant, CME also addressed the reunion course and expressed his honour and praised the veteran's indomitable spirit for assembling together from all across the country to celebrate the special day. He also highlighted the exceptional performance and feats of achievement of the course in the field of Military Operations, Military Sports and Civil services. He also paid homage to the fallen soldiers and expressed his wishes to those who couldn't make it due to unavoidable commitments. A Coffee Table Book to mark the Golden Jubilee of the course was also released by the veterans
In the evening, a commemoration dinner was conducted at Faculty of Combat Library, CME, the very place where the course got commissioned and wore their ranks. The event triggered an avalanche of nostalgic moments for the veterans as they remembered the comrades who could not make it to this day.PIB Pune | M.Iyengar/D.Rane
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Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs 
Cabinet approves amendments and modifications in the Toll-Operate-Transfer model and securitization of user fee receipts of NH
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to the amendments proposed in the Toll Operate Transfer  Model by National Highways Authority of India . Public funded National Highway  projects which are operational and have toll revenue generation history of one year after the Commercial Operations Date  shall be monetized through the TOT Model. The monetization will be subject to approval of the Competent Authority in Ministry of Road Transport and Highways  / NHAI on a case to case basis.
Around 75 operational NH projects have been identified for potential monetization using the TOT Model, and bundled into 10 separate bids to attract economics of scale for the private sector. The corpus generated from proceeds of such project monetization shall be utilized by the Government to meet its fund requirements regarding future development and O&M of highways in the country. The Model would facilitate efficient toll realization through private sector.
This approval would ensure a wider set of assets for Monetization and providing a more attractive model for the investors. Further, the fund generated from such monetization shall be utilized for development/O&M of highways in the country, which would benefit highway users throughout the country.
Implementation Strategy and targets:
The approved TOT Model authorized NHAI to monetize public funded NH projects, such as EPC/BOT  projects, which are operational and have a proven toll collection history of at least two years. The approved TOT Model provides for a fixed 30-year concession period. The fund generated from proceeds of monetization are being utilized by the Government to meet its financing requirements regarding future development of NHs in the country, including their operation and maintenance.
NHAI has already monetized one bundle of projects under TOT Model, generating a revenue of Rs. 9681.50crore for the government. However, the second bundle saw deviation in the market valuation of assets from NHAI's valuation. NHAI has conducted several rounds of discussions with the private sector to reduce uncertainty in the Model. The approved amendments in the model will allow more efficient asset monetization through TOT Mode.
Background:
The NHAI was authorized to monetize public funded NationalHighway projects through the TOT Model. The TOT Model allows NHAI to:
 Ensure efficient management of constructed and operational NH projects through proper Operation and Maintenance .
 Arrange for additional funds which are required for achievement of targets under Bharatmala Programme and other NH development works.
Prime Minister's Office
PM to join the programme to mark the conclusion of the Narmada Seva Yatra in Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh
PM to join the programme to mark the conclusion of the Narmada Seva Yatra in Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi will join the programme to mark the conclusion of the Narmada Seva Yatra in Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, tomorrow.
"I am delighted to join the programme to mark the conclusion of the Narmada Seva Yatra in Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, tomorrow afternoon.
Narmada Seva Yatra is an excellent mass movement to protect the Narmada and conveys a larger message of saving the environment as well.
Tomorrow in Madhya Pradesh, I will be launching the Narmada Seva Mission, which will surely have a major impact on MP’s ecology.
You can watch tomorrow’s Narmada Seva Yatra programme live on your mobiles on https://t.co/TYuxNNJfIf", the Prime Minister said.
Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
Khadi’s new products launched by Government
Khadi & Village Industries Commission , under the Ministry of MSME, has launched two new products- Khadi babywear and handmade paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers on 15.07.2021.
it is true that the Khadi handmade paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers have been developed by Khadi & Village Industries  with the objective of supporting handmade paper industry, strengthening traditional art and creating sustainable employment for artisans. These slippers use thick handmade paper board and soft handmade paper as raw material and hence creates a new line of product which will not only increase the consumption of handmade paper but will also create sustainable employment for handmade paper industry artisans.
One handmade paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers fabrication unit of the capacity of 500 pairs per day employs 20 persons per day for cutting, pasting, packaging and logistics.
Manufacturing of 500 handmade paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers require 225 sheets of handmade paper. This further creates employment for 9 persons per day in producing handmade paper industry.
The salient features of Khadi babywear and handmade paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers are given below:-
Salient features of Khadi Babywear:-
- KVIC has introduced Babywear for the first time for the age group of new-born and upto 2 years.
- Khadi babywear is made of high quality hand-spun and hand-woven Khadi Cotton fabric.
- The fabric is eco-friendly and made using natural fibres to suit the sensitive skin of new born babies.
- The fabric is free from any chemical treatment and harmful dyes to prevent babies from any skin irritation.
- Fabric used in Khadi babywear is breathable and skin friendly.
- The idea behind introducing babywear is to further diversify the product range for more consumption of Khadi fabric and ultimately creating more income for Khadi Artisans.
Salient features of Handmade Paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers:-
- Khadi handmade paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers have been developed for the first time in the country.
- Khadi handmade paper ‘Use and Throw’ Slippers are made of fine-textured handmade paper and are 100% eco-friendly and cost-effective.
- Suitable for travel and indoor usage like in homes, hotels, hospitals, places of worship, laboratories, etc.
- Hygienic from pandemic point of view.
- Available in two types- flip flop and slip-on.
This information was given by Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Shri Narayan Rane in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Railways
Shri Piyush Goyal launches Jaipur-Sikar- DEMU Passenger Service
Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal inaugurated 79603/04 Jaipur-Sikar-JaipurDEMU  Service between Jaipur and Sikar through Video-conferencing today. Member of Parliament from Sikar Shri SumedhanandaSaraswati participated in the inaugural ceremony from Ringus. This service will operate on the newly Gauge converted Jaipur - Ringus section.
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Regular services of this train are to start from tomorrow morning
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan participates in the Social Enterprise Conclave, launches Social Trailblazer Program for entrepreneurs
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan calls upon entrepreneurs to think global and scale up with profit
Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today addressed a Social Enterprise Conclave organized by Institute of Rural Management, Anand in partnership with LIC Housing Finance Limited in New Delhi today. On this occasion, Shri Pradhan launched the second edition of the Social Trailblazer Program by Incubator for Social Enterprises and Entrepreneurs Development, IRMA. The program aims to further boost the social entrepreneurship ecosystem at the grassroots and nurture early stage entrepreneurs.
Shri Pradhan while speaking on the occasion said that the collective effort of IRMA and LIC HFL to help social enterprises is indeed commendable. He said that New India is entering a new phase fueled by the innovation and spirit of enterprise of our Yuva Shakti and such novel initiatives will further support our youth in their efforts to make a big impact towards societal good.
He further said that Social enterprises will have to play an important role in defining this next wave of growth. He also called upon entrepreneurs to dream big, think global and scale up their enterprise with purpose and ethics.
Shri Umakant Dash, Director of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand and Shri Y. Vishwanatha Goud, Managing Director & CEO, LIC Housing Finance Ltd were also presented on the occasion.
Ministry of Rural Development
Bhumi Samvaad IV: National Conference on Digitizing and Georeferencing India with Bhu-Aadhaar 
Department of Land Resources is organizing the National Conference - Bhumi Samvaad IV on implementation of Unique Land Parcel Identification Number  or Bhu-Aadhaar on 17th March 2023 in New Delhi. Shri Giriraj Singh, Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj will be the chief guest on the occasion. The theme of the National Conference is - "Digitizing and Geo-Referencing INDIA with Bhu-Aadhaar ". The Conference will have sessions on “Democratization of Land Records Data and Matribhoomi; “Application of Bhu-Aadhaar in Ease of Doing Business  and Ease of Living; and “Best Practices – National and Global (Georeferencing / Survey/ Resurvey/ Use of Bhu-Aadhaar and Way Forward”. This conference is being organized under Bhumi-Samvaad series of Dialogues and Deliberations of Land Administration and Governance in the country. It is the 4th such conference with States/ UTs, Ministries and Departments, other stakeholders like Geospatial community, startups, academia.
The Conference will bring together a diverse group of leaders and participants from various stakeholder groups, including Central as well as State/ UT Governments, academia and research institutes, regional bodies, the business community and civil society. It will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas, showcase innovations, share successful case studies, identify solutions, discuss future strategies and provide mutual learning opportunities on various topics and potential use of Bhu-Aadhaar or Unique Land Parcel Identification Number  across sectors. The Bhu-Aadhaar or ULPIN, a 14-digit alpha-numeric number generated based on the latitude longitude of the vertices of each land parcel shall be a single, authoritative source of truth of information on any parcel of land or property to provide integrated land services to the citizens as well as all stakeholders.
Around 300 participants across the Nation from diverse fields will take part in the deliberations in the Conference.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Cabinet approves Revision in guidelines for providing Direct to Home  Services in India
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the proposal for revision of the guidelines for obtaining license for providing Direct-To-Home  broadcasting service in India. The salient features of the decision are:
- License for the DTH will be issued for a period of 20 years in place of present 10 years. Further the period of License may be renewed by 10 years at a time.
- License fee has been revised from 10% of GR to 8% of AGR. AGR will be calculated by deduction of GST from GR.
- License Fee will be collected on quarterly basis in lieu of presently annualbasis.
- DTH operators shall be permitted to operate .to a maximum of 5% of its total channel carrying capacity as permitted platform channels. A one-time non-refundable registration fee of Rs.10,000 per PS channel shall be charged from a DTH operator.
- Sharing of Infrastructure between DTH operators. DTH operators, willing to share DTH platform and transport stream of TV channels, on voluntary basis, will be allowed. Distributors of TV channels will be permitted to share the common hardware for their Subscriber Management System  and Conditional Access System  applications.
- The cap of 49% FDl in the existing DTH guidelines will be aligned with the extant Government  policy on FDl as amended from time to time.
- vii. The decision will come into effect as per revised DTH guidelines are issued bythe Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The proposed reduction is intended to align the license fee regime applicable to Telecom sector and will be prospectively applied. The difference may also enable DTH service providers to invest for more coverage leading to increased operations and higher growth and thereby enhanced and regular payment of License Fee by them. Registration fee for Platform Services is likely to bring a revenue of approximately Rs. 12 Lakhs. Sharing of infrastructure by the DTH operators may bring in more efficient use of scarce satellite resources and reduce the costs borne by the consumers. Adoption of the extant FDI policy will bring in more foreign investment into the country.
The DTH is operable on pan-India basis. DTH sector is a highly employment intensive sector. It directly employs DTH operators as well as those in the call centres besides indirectly employing a sizeable number of installers at the grass-root level. The amended DTH guidelines, with longer license period and clarity on renewals, relaxed FDI limits, etc., will ensure fair degree of stability and new investments in the DTH sector along with employment opportunities.
Ministry of Defence
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh & his Tanzanian counterpart Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax hold bilateral talks in New Delhi
Agree to set up a Task Force to prepare a Five Year Future Roadmap for enhancing bilateral defence cooperation
Raksha Mantri invites his Tanzanian counterpart for DefExpo 2022 to be held in October.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with Tanzanian Minister of Defence and National Service Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax in New Delhi on August 26, 2022. A wide range of issues concerning bilateral, regional and defence industrial cooperation were discussed during the meeting. The two Ministers reviewed the existing military-to-military activities and discussed ways to enhance cooperation in all domains with a focus on defence industry cooperation.
Both the Ministers agreed to the formation of a Task Force to prepare a Five Year Future Road map for enhancing defence cooperation between both the countries and to hold the next Joint Defence Cooperation meeting in Tanzania at an early date. The Raksha Mantri also invited his Tanzanian counterpart to the India-Africa Defence Dialogue and DefExpo which is scheduled to be held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat between 18-22 October, 2022.
Earlier in the day, the Tanzanian Minister of Defence and National Service visited the National War Memorial and paid homage to the fallen heroes by laying wreath at the monument. She was accorded a Ceremonial Guard of Honour before her bilateral meeting with Shri Rajnath Singh.
Dr Tax would be visiting Wargaming Development Centre and Information Fusion Centre – Indian Ocean Region before departing for Hyderabad for interaction with the Indian Defence Industries.
Prime Minister's Office
PM applauds Indian Embassy in Doha, Qatar for bringing together people from several Nations for practising yoga
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has applauded great effort of Indian Embassy in Doha, Qatar for bringing together people from several Nations for practising yoga. He also said that Yoga is uniting the world in pursuit of good health and wellness.
(The Prime Minister tweeted;
"Yoga is uniting the world in pursuit of good health and wellness. A great effort by @IndEmbDoha of bringing together people from several nations for practising Yoga."
Election Commission
ECI Comes With Key Rings, Badges with Voter Awareness Messages
Kolkata, April 4, 2019
The Election Commission of India has come with some token merchandise like key rings, badges with voter awareness messages on them. Some of them have messages like ‘Desh ka Maha Tauhar’, ‘Veni, Vidi, Vote’, ‘Every Vote Counts, #GoVote’ and the like. These token articles will be sent to different locations where polling booths are nearby, so that they can be distributed among the citizens. Citizens, particularly, the new voters will be sensitised by this initiative, so that they get interested in exercising their franchise.
The Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Shri Sanjoy Basu informed that the messages in Bengali too will be distributed among the electors residing near the booths before the poll. He also said that audio-visual presentation of sign languages prepared for helping voters, who suffer from hearing impairedness to cast their votes. Besides, wheel chairs will be there in booths for helping the people with locomotive disorder.
The CEO’s Office in West Bengal has already appointed Jeeja Ghosh, the disability activist as State icon. Besides, mascots like Fajlibabu in Malda and Gutipishi’s Sahajpath in Murshidabad district or Bhottu, the owl to inspire electors to cast their votes so that no voter is left behind have already earned popularity.
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Expression of Interest invited for setting up of Mega Food Parks
Ministry of Food Processing Industries has floated Expression of Interest  for submission of proposals for setting up of Mega Food Parks in the country under Mega Food Park Scheme  on 03.02.2021. The last date for submission of the proposal is 03.03.2021.
Ministry has been implementing Mega Food Park Scheme to create modern infrastructure for the food processing. This scheme is now a component of the new Central Sector Umbrella Scheme – Pradhan MantriKisanSampadaYojana .
The proposals under Mega Food Park Scheme for setting up of Mega Food Parks in the country are invited through Expression of Interest  from time to time. Selection of suitable proposals for these projects is done as per the Scheme guidelines, based on the merit, through a three-tier stringent appraisal process as per the prefixed criteria.
As per the Mega Food Park Scheme guidelines, the Scheme provides a capital grant at the rate of 50 percent of the eligible project cost in general areas and at the rate of 75 percent of eligible project cost in difficult and hilly areas i.e. North East Region including Sikkim, J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and ITDP notified areas of the States subject to a maximum grant of Rs.50 crore per project. The time schedule for completion and successful operationalization of a Mega Food Park project is 30 months from the date of final approval to the project.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Food and Processing Industries, Shri RameswarTeli in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Education
Master training of Football for Schools  kicked off at Sambalpur, Odisha
MoE, FIFA, AIFF to make football more accessible to both boys and girls
Football activities to be incorporated into the education system
Football for Schools  is an ambitious programme run by Fédération Internationale de Football Association . The Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education is supported by the All India Football Federation  and Sports Authority of India  in the implementation of this programme in the Country. A two-day capacity-building master training programme was organized by FIFA as a part of the F4S on 2nd October 2023, at Sambalpur, Odisha. In this, 95 Physical Education Teachers/Trainees from States/UTs, KVS, NVS and AIFF participated. Two more such training programmes will be organized in Pune and Bengaluru on 5th-6th October 2023, where around 200  participants will be joining. These teachers/trainees will then be considered as the Master trainers at the State level for enhancing the capacity further at the next levels.
The first two-days master training kicked off today at Sambalpur, Odisha, 3 master trainers from FIFA and one representative from AIFF, two from the Department of School Education & Literacy, KVS and NVS participated. Ninety-five participants  from 13 States, KVS, NVS and AIFF are attending the training.
An MoU was signed between the Ministry of Education, AIFF and FIFA on 30 October 2022. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya was the Nodal organization assigned by the Ministry for the purpose. This programme entails empowering the Government Schools with students, teachers, and Coaches across the country by resourcing them with 11.15 lakh footballs and their capacity building. These balls will be distributed amongst schools pan India.
F4S aims to contribute to the education, development, and empowerment of around 700 million children. It seeks to make football more accessible to both boys and girls around the world by incorporating football activities into the education system, in partnership with relevant authorities and stakeholders. F4S is being initiated in India by FIFA.